Epidemiology Course on the Internet (53)
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Update of the lectures on the Supercourse
Friends,
In the past two to three weeks, we have five new lectures, two revised
lectures and resource page up on the Supercourse,
I. New lectures
II. Revised lectures
III. Resource page
I. New lectures on the Supercourse
1) Lecture 29
The history of the Pan American Health Organisation
by Carlos Gamboa, Regional Advisor of PAHO Regional Office of
WHO on Health Information
2) Lecture 28
Epidemiology of Medical Devices
by Marry E Torrence, Chief, Epidemiology Branch, FDA, USA
3) Lecture 26
Viral Hepatitis, Hepatocellular Carcinoma
by Jau-Shin Wu, Professor, Taipei Medical College, Taiwan
4) Lecture 25
Epidemiology of Andean Cutaneous Leishmaniasis
by Bruno F. Casanova, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia
Supervised by E A Llanos-Cuentas, Instituto de Medicina Tropi-
cal Alexander Von Humboldt, Peru
5) Lecture 27
The Impact of Diabetes in the Americas
by Ingrid Libman, Paediatric Endocrinology and Epidemiology,
Department of Paediatric Endocrinology, Children's Hospital,
Pittsburgh USA
II. Revised Lectures
1) Lecture 3
Monitoring Disease in the Population
by Ron LaPorte, Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Graduate
School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh
2) Lecture 9
An introduction to health economics
by Thomas Jefferson, Edmund Parkes Professor of Preventive
Medicine at the Royal Defence Medical College in Gosport,
England
III. Resource page
http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/main/resource/
Supercourse's resource page includes two best sellers on Epidemiology
and Statistics by 'The British Medical Journal' (Statistics at Square
1, Epidemiology for the Uninitiated), Global Health Network resources
and others.
We asked the 'The British Medical Journal' to put these two books on
the web for the Supercourse and they generously made them available on
the Internet.
Akira, Ron, Deb
mailto:ghnetu+@pitt.edu
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